The Best And Worst Investment (and other) Books of 2019

It has been my tradition to informally rate the investment-related books I read in the past year. I have also included some novels and books of general interest. Here is my list of winners and losers.

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Opinions about books are very personal, so these ratings reflect my tastes and opinions, which might be very different from yours.

Booklist 2019 (73)
Distinguished (6)	Good (22)
Multipliers-Wiseman	Muscular Portfolios-Livingston
Sapiens-Harari	The Essential Retirement Guide-Vettese
Don’t Count On It-Bogle	The Fool’s Run-Sandford
Escape from the Balance Sheet Recession and the QE Trap-Koo	The Hanged Man’s Song-Sandford
The Wrong Side of Goodbye-Connelly	The Fallen-Baldacci
Neon Prey-Sandford	Beartown-Backman
	The Women in the Window-Finn
	No Middle Name-Child
Excellent (13)	The Vanishing Year-Moretti
The Charisma Myth-Cabane	The Trust-Balson
Factfulness-Rosling	The Sceptical Investor-Stepek
The Girl Who Takes An Eye for an Eye-Lagercrantz	War of the Wolf-Cornwell Traction-Wickman
Pitch the Perfect Investment-Sonkin&Johnson This Body of Death-George	Fools and Mortals-Cornwell Before We Were Yours-Wingate
Gone Tomorrow-Child Just One Evil Act-George	The Lost City of the Monkey God-Preston The Lying Game-Ware
The Girl from Berlin-Balson	A Practioner’s Guide to Asset Allocation-Kinlaw, Kritzman&Turkington
The Punishment She Deserves-George
Dark Sacred Night-Connelly	Stumbling on Happiness-Gilbert
The Tattooist of Auschwitz-Morris	The Empty Throne-Cornwell
Never Go Back-Child	The Girl Who Lived Twice-Lagercrantz
A Banquet of Consequences-George	The Fox-Forsythe
	The Kill List-Forsythe
	Fair (13)
	Walking the Bones- Silvis
Very Good (15)	Three Envelopes-Hezroni
The Flame Bearer-Cornwell	Dual Momentum Investing-Antonacci
The Pagan Lord-Cornwell	Origin-Brown
Dollars and Sense-Ariely&Kreisler	My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me-Teege
The Other Woman-Silvas	The 12-Week Year-Moran&Lennington
Holy Ghost-Sandford	Baker’s Secret-Kiernan
Walking Shadows-Kellerman	The Edge of the Orchard-Chevalier
Popularity-Ibbotson&Idzorek	Burning Bright-Chevalier
Silken Prey-Sandford	Boat Runner-Murphy
Private Debt-Nesbitt	An Economist Walks Into a Brothel-Schrager
Button Man-Gross	Stormchild-Cornwell
Past Tense-Child	Blue Mind-Fair
Warriors of the Storm-Cornwell
The Advantage-Lencioni
The Crisis of Crowding-Chincarini	Poor (4)
	Spooner-Dexter
	Florida-Groff
	Way of the Trader-Murphy
	Exit West-Hamid